Data on Suicide

Data Briefs

Suicide Data Dashboards

The Maine CDC has created two dashboards to share suicide-related data with state and local partners to use in their planning, prevention, and intervention efforts. Below is a dashboard containing the most up to date death data available by county, gender, and age from death certificates. The most recent year of data included in this dashboard is provisional. It will be updated annually.

The following Dashboard is the result of a collaboration between Maine CDC and the federal CDC on a syndromic surveillance program for non-fatal suicidal events. Syndromic surveillance involves real-time tracking of emergency department visits where suicidal behavior was a relevant factor from all 33 of Maine’s non-VA hospitals. ED visits that involve suicide attempts, suicidal ideation, and intentional overdoses are tracked. The goal of syndromic surveillance is to increase the timeliness of the surveillance of nonfatal suicide-related outcomes and respond to changing patterns in suicidal behavior. This dashboard is updated on a quarterly basis.

Maine Data Reports by County

Using syndromic surveillance data, the Maine CDC has created monthly reports for each county in the state. These reports provide statistics on suicide ideation and attempts from the last six months. You can sign up to have these reports sent to your email on a monthly basis.

To sign up for monthly county reports, please fill out this survey.